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"Beautiful, intelligent, connected light. Open hardware, open software, endless possibilities for play and delight." That is how Moore's Cloud an Australian based outfit led by Mark Pesce is describing their ambient display project called Light.We can break that description down piece by...

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This Bluetooth enabled door lock was created as an Instructable by 17 year old Collin Amedee for the 2012 Arduino Challenge.Licensed under a Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike the kit of parts include: An Arduino (Instructable uses a Duemilanove), Electric Door Strike, Bluetooth Module ($9.99), TIP120 Transistor and an Android phone...

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Description: Open-electronics.org has put together a tutorial for you to use an off the shelf digital scale, an Arduino board and a Wi-Fi shield to send your scale's weight data to an online Google Document for tracking and monitoring. ...

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Loochi is an ambient Bluetooth 4 "smart lamp" from a Santa Cruz TB Ideas. The project continues on with the trend of ambient light devices we have seen in the past but breaks away in at least one direction in that it is completely...

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Created by Puerto Rico based Kytelabs the BLEduino is a new Arduino compatible Low Energy Bluetooth platform designed to enable easy development and smartphone communication for your latest project or prototype.The main board is basically a shrunken (1.7" length) down Arduino Leonardo that uses...

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SparqEE CELL is a new cellular development board created by engineer Chris Higgins and the SoCal based SparqEE team that wants to ease the burden of bringing long range connectivity to your latest product or DIY experiment. The USB powered kit includes support for...

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Electron is the latest wireless development board from the Spark team, and marks the company’s jump onto the cellular connectivity bandwagon that seems to be all anyone involved in the Internet of Things can talk about recently. Like Spark’s previous products,...

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The Oxford Flood Network is a citizen science project to keep tabs on flooding in local waterways. It’s an example of how the Internet of Things can enable a community to be more connected to its environment (Which is especially relevant in this area...

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The folks at Brooklyn-based nonprofit HabitatMap make it their goal to spread awareness of the connection between the environment and human health. With AirBeam, a wireless air quality monitor now on Kickstarter, they’re hoping that a distributed network of “aircasters” will be the next...

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Created by researchers at Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago Array of Things is a network of sensor boxes that will be mounted to lampposts and other infrastructure around Chicago. With the city government’s approval, each “node” in the network will collect block-by-block...

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In the recent past when trying to add Bluetooth communication to your Arduino project you had to bite the bullet on a seperate and often expensive shield. Armen Kazanchian the founder of California based Open Source RF wants to change this with RFduino.Built on...

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The Data Sensing Lab is a project sponsored by O'Reilly Media with the tagline "Hardware hacking for data scientists". By deploying custom wireless hardware at tech conferences like Strata and Google I/O the team is looking to advance what real-time sensor network data collection, analysis, and visualizations...

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Lelylan is an API and toolset with aims to make app development for the Internet of Things easy and quick for Makers and manufacturers alike. The company also has lofty design goals, taking aim at the many different apps and “user experience” interactions currently...

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TinyScreen, the latest addition to the TinyDuino snap-together prototyping line from TinyCircuits (Winners of our IoT Awards Open Source category in 2012), is a powerful and inexpensive display for connected gadgets and wearables. Did we mention...

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PressureNET is a project by Canadian company Cumulonimbus that uses a smartphones built-in barometric sensor (currently offered in several Android phones and used mainly to improve location data) in combination with the companies app to collect atmospheric pressure data from users around the world.The...

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The bicycle barometer is a project by developer Richard Pope that takes daily weather forecast data and the status of the subway lines and outputs a graphic value (bike sign at one end and a tube sign at the other) telling him whether it...

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London-based SAM Labs is billing its first product, the SAM development kit, as “The Ultimate Internet-Connected Electronics Kit.” Hyperbole? Maybe. But the kit has a few features that set it apart from similar products. SAM modules come in...

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Geoffrey Barrows is a researcher and entrepreneur based out of Washington, DC. His company Centeye focuses on computer vision systems and has recently branched out to head some Open Hardware initiatives like the ArduEye and creating the embedded vision system community Embedded Eye. Typical...

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The Smart Citizen Kit is an environmental monitoring hardware board, web service and mobile app developed to connect "people with their environment and their city to create more effective and optimized relationships between resources, technology, communities, services and events in the urban environment."The project was...

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Stack Box, from Malaysia- and San Francisco-based Cloud Media, joined the fray of home automation hubs by closing a successful Kickstarter last week. Two things help Stack Box stand out from the ever-increasing crowd of similar devices: Expandable hardware, and the ability to act...

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Apitronics has a mission of helping farmers become more efficient by creating a platform of cost effective, field-ready, open source components for them to use in their day to day operations.MIT student Louis Thiery created the Apitroinics project after joining the non-profit group Farm Hack and helping a fellow member...

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Flexibity sensors is a new project created by Maxim Osipov and Pavel Kosenkov that seeks to improve data collaboration between users and researchers and help people easily capture, visualize and understand their behaviors and environmental conditions within their home over time.Originally inspired by Maxim's...

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Today’s gadgets increasingly require traditional computer chips to become flexible, form-fitting; they have to move and reshape themselves according to the motion of our bodies, or fit into smaller and more organic shapes. Manufacturers are hard at work finding ways to print circuits onto...

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The Physical Web, a new project from Google’s Chrome team, might sound like an attempt to rebrand the Internet of Things. It’s not. In fact, it’s returning to the roots of the Web to provide a lightweight discovery and interaction layer to the IoT....

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We’ve told you before about Ninja Blocks, a home automation system that couples wireless sensors with simple software to create rules for things like motion detection alerts and remotely switching lights on or off. Now the eponymous Australia-based startup behind Ninja Blocks is hard...